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17
HASTINGS MAIL, JULY 6, 2011
Havelock North High School Teacher Awarded
Fulbright Scholarship
Ngaire Addis, Assistant Head of Mathematics at Havelock
North High School, has been awarded a prestigious
Fulbright Scholarship.
Ms Addis is currently completing a doctorate through
Massey University as an extra-mural student. The Fulbright
Scholarship will enable her to continue with her doctoral
studies at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard
University in the United States, working with Professor
Kathy Boudett.
The Fulbright Scholarships are awards for New Zealanders
and Americans to study and research in each others country.
The awards aim to promote international understanding
through educational and cultural exchange between New
Zealand and the United States. Recipients of Fulbright
Scholarships have been some of our most famous writers,
historians, politicians, judges and academics. Ngaire Addis
is now a member of this prestigious group.
During her three months at Harvard University, Ms Addis
will be researching the use of mathematics achievement
data in American high schools. Ms Addis has been carrying
out research on the use of mathematics achievement data in
New Zealand schools as part of her PhD studies and is the
teacher in charge of achievement data analysis at Havelock
North High School. The results of the data analysis are used
to inform the school about student achievement and enable
teachers to pinpoint more accurately the individual attention
students need to help improve their learning and achievement.
Ms Addis hopes to develop a best practice model of data
collection and analysis for New Zealand schools from her
research in American schools. She acknowledges that
Havelock North Highs data analysis is highly developed but
she hopes that she will be able to further ne tune it following
her return to the school in 2012. Ms Addis takes up the
scholarship in August.
Ms Ngaire Addis, Fulbright Scholar
TheVillage
News
Discovering Havelock North Much more than just a village
www.havelocknorth.co.nz
Road changes a win-win situation
Small people power:
Fiona Francois, head
teacher at Te Mata
Kindergarten, next to
the pedestrian
crossing about to be
upgraded to improve
the safety of kindy
kids. From left, Joshua
Messingham, Holly
James, Kayla Jensen
and Charlie Wenley.
Design changes to Te Mata Rd in
Havelock North have been altered
after safety concerns were raised
by the local kindergarten as part
of community consultation.
Teachers and parents at Te
Mata Kindergarten were less than
happy when notified of Hastings
District Council's designs to build
a new cycleway from Everest Ave
to Kingsgate Ave, a part of its
i-Way cycling and walking initiat-
ive.
The kindy was set to lose a
number of already precious car-
parking spaces used by parents
when dropping off their children
at the cycleway, with the increase
in vehicle movement prompting
safety fears for children at peak
times.
But after a series of meetings
between kindergarten staff and
the council, designs for the road
were changed.
The new design will see the cur-
rent pedestrian crossing outside
the kindergarten moved a few
metres back towards the village,
and a refuge island built in the
middle of the road to improve
safety.
Painted pedestrian lanes will
help guide children through the
busy car park area, and changes
to the location of the kindergarten
sign on Te Mata Rd will ensure it
has a maximum impact on
approaching drivers.
I think the council consulted
with us extremely well,'' says Te
Mata Kindergarten head teacher
Fiona Francois.
I was able to inform the council
that a lot of children were using
the pedestrian unassisted to get to
the kindy, which is something
council wasn't aware of.
Now we are getting the new
pedestrian crossing and the refuge
island, and while we will lose two
car-parking spaces when it's
moved, the council is reinstating
three spaces out the front,'' she
says.
So it's all worked out well.''
The council will also provide
extra parking on the
Karituwhenua Stream reserve.
Hastings Deputy Mayor
Cynthia Bowers said it was a
great outcome for the community
and the kindergarten.
Parents and caregivers can feel
confident in the knowledge that
their children are safer when
making their way to kindy, while
another link will be completed in
the chain of cycleways around the
district. The work will ensure
drivers have a greater
awareness of cyclists
and pedestrians and ultimately
take more care, particularly
where children are concerned,''
she says.
The changes will be completed
this month.